The workers had everything going for them: As a body they were well organized and determined, and they enjoyed massive public support, but their union decided to shut down the strike and the rest as they say is history.
Public interest in the strike was impressive. I wrote some updates about it and one took so many hits that I was receiving messages from Blogspot telling me to monetize. It was taking hundreds of hits an hour (quite a bit for this humble blog) until my counter stopped counting and the piece disappeared from Google's search engine.
All of that momentum was wasted when the union called off the strike, and the cuts are the inevitable result.
http://labornotes.org/2012/03/unions-struggle-regroup-verizons-hits-keep-coming
